Hacking an Ambiguity Detection Tool to Extract Variation Points: an Experience Report

Natural language (NL) requirements documents can be a precious source to identify variability information. This information can be later used to define feature models from which different systems can be instantiated. In this paper, we are interested in validating the approach we have recently proposed to extract variability issues from the ambiguity defects found in NL requirement documents. To this end, we single out ambiguities using an available NL analysis tool, QuARS, and we classify the ambiguities returned by the tool by distinguishing among false positives, real ambiguities, and variation points. We consider three medium sized requirement documents from different domains, namely, train control, social web, home automation. We report in this paper the results of the assessment. Although the validation set is not so large, the results obtained are quite uniform and permit to draw some interesting conclusions. Starting from the results obtained, we can foresee the tailoring of a NL analysis tool for extracting variability from NL requirement documents

Digital Home Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges to Safety, Liability, and Informed Consent, and the Way to Move Forward

We argue that changing how postmarket studies are conducted and who evaluates them might mitigate some concerns over the agency’s increasing reliance upon RWE. Distributing the responsibility for designing, conducting, and assessing real world studies of medical devices and drugs beyond industry sponsors and the FDA is critical to producing – and acting upon – more clinically useful information. We explore how the DESI program provides a useful model for the governance of RWE today. We explain why the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health is the most promising site for a new DESI initiative inspired by the challenges of regulating drugs in the past.https://ideas.dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/book-contributions/1016/thumbnail.jp

Accommodating Students With Special Educational Needs During School Closures Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Norway: Perceptions of Teachers and Students

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Designing the smart house: posthuman domesticity and conspicuous production

This article analyzes recent architectural and product designs for computerized smart homes. The smart home is a sentient space where human subjects and domestic objects speak to one another via intelligent agents and internet connections. This article explores the industrial logic behind this new vision of home (i.e. the links between the hi-tech industry and the building/ home appliance industries) and examines the mode of subjectivity the smart home demands. It calls this mode of subjectivity 'posthuman domesticity' (a term to explore the way that everyday human experience is orchestrated by telerobotics and intelligent agents). Analyzing architectural designs, advertisements and magazines, the article focuses on how the smart home industry promotes an ideal of 'conspicuous production' in which the luxury home is no longer just a site of leisure and consumption, but also the ultimate workplace. It argues that smart homes reconfigure but also reinforce gendered patterns of domestic labor and leisure

Strategic business model for digital home market

The project proposes a strategic business model for the digital home market in the United States that includes the automobile environment. It uses Sony, a leading entertainment company and producer of consumer electronics, as an example. The project includes analyses of the overall digital home industry, the automobile electronics market, and Sony\u27s digital home business model. The study also includes a market survey conducted with a sample of students from California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) and two interviews with professionals in the digital home industry

Off the Shelf Cloud Robotics for the Smart Home: Empowering a Wireless Robot through Cloud Computing

In this paper, we explore the possibilities offered by the integration of home automation systems and service robots. In particular, we examine how advanced computationally expensive services can be provided by using a cloud computing approach to overcome the limitations of the hardware available at the user’s home. To this end, we integrate two wireless low-cost, off-the-shelf systems in this work, namely, the service robot Rovio and the home automation system Z-wave. Cloud computing is used to enhance the capabilities of these systems so that advanced sensing and interaction services based on image processing and voice recognition can be offered.Ministerio de Economía TEC2016-80242-PJunta de Andalucía P11-TEP-812

Towards an holistic view of the energy and environmental impacts of domestic media and IT

To date, research in sustainable HCI has dealt with eco-feedback, usage and recycling of appliances within the home, and longevity of portable electronics such as mobile phones. However, there seems to be less awareness of the energy and greenhouse emissions impacts of domestic consumer electronics and information technology. Such awareness is needed to inform HCI sustainability researchers on how best to prioritise efforts around digital media and IT. Grounded in inventories, interview and plug energy data from 33 undergraduate student participants, our findings provide the context for assessing approaches to reducing the energy and carbon emissions of media and IT in the home. In the paper, we use the findings to discuss and inform more fruitful directions that sustainable HCI research might take, and we quantify how various strategies might have modified the energy and emissions impacts for our participants

Formative and Summative Automated Assessment with Multiple-Choice Question Banks

Digital automated assessment is a valuable and time-efficient tool for educators to provide immediate and objective feedback to learners. Automated assessment, however, puts high demands on the quality of the questions, alignment with the intended learning outcomes, and the quality of the feedback provided to the learners. We here describe the development and use of a large number (N > 180) of question banks with multiple items (N ≥ 20) that are aligned to the intended learning outcomes of an undergraduate general chemistry course. Even though the development of a large number of high-quality question banks is a formidable task, they allow for flexible and easy-to-implement solutions for formative and summative assessment once developed. We here discuss three applications of the question banks: formative assessment in large online classes, practice tests that provide formative assessment outside classes, and summative assessment through a digital exam. We highlight the importance of aligning the question banks with intended learning outcomes, providing additional feedback to the learners and of quality assurance of the question banks, and show how the combined use of the question banks supports student self-regulated learning. We hope that the present work can inspire others to discover the various applications of question banks for formative and summative assessment

Kollektiewe verkope van televisieregte vir sport in die Europese Unie : mededingingsfasette

Televisieregte vir sport word wêreldwyd vir astronomiese bedrae verhandel. In die Europese Unie (EU), word hierdie regte gewoonlik deur sportliggame en -ligas op 'n kollektiewe grondslag verhandel, ten einde die waarde daarvan te verhoog. Sulke reëlings is egter onderhewig aan EU Mededingingsmaatreëls, wat daarop gerig is, nie om mededinging te verhoed nie, maar om onregmatige mededinging te verbied en die spreekwoordelike speelveld gelyk te maak. Hierdie artikel oorweeg die maatstawwe, soos neergelê deur die mededingingsdirektoraat van die Europese Kommissie en uitgewys in regspraak van die Europese geregshof, om te bepaal of sodanige kollektiewe verhandelinge van geval tot geval regmatig is. Dit oorweeg ook die beperkings wat die sogenaamde EU "Television Without Frontiers" Directive plaas op die verhandeling van TV-regte deur sportliggame, en wat vereis dat bepaalde sportgeleenthede van sosiale belang in elkeen van die 28 lidstate van die EU algemeen beskikbaar moet wees op "gratis-oor-die-lug-televisie". Die artikel fokus ook op die onlangse appèlsake wat in die Europese geregshof ten aansien van die FIFA sokker-wêreldbeker en UEFA Europese kampioenskap beslis is.http://www.dejure.up.ac.za/am2014ai201